ELA Skills Review

Setting affects the following:

• mood

• character's values and beliefs

• plot

• ALL OF THE ABOVE

Setting can give clues about a story's_______.

• plot

• mood

• conflict

• All of the above

What advice would help an author write a setting for their story?

• Copy the setting of a famous story

• Make sure to paraphrase in your own words

• Try to describe all 5 senses

• All of the Above

What is setting?

• belief

• value

• mood

• time and place

What is a figurative language?

• the events, situations, or language that surround a particular word, phrase or piece of text that help explain its meaning

• Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.

If you don't curtail your spending, you'll be broke in no time at all!

Which word is a synonym of "curtail"?

• Reduce

• Increase

what the text is all about; has the same meaning as the main idea

• supporting details

• central idea

• paraphrase

To use your background knowledge and clues in the text to conclude something is to...

• elaborate

• infer

• describe

'Genre' refers to the ____ of literature the writing belongs to.

• type or kind

• time period

• audience

To quote or mention the source you used.

• Cite

• conclude

• inference